Does Biotin make you gain weight?

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  • nooshi713
    nooshi713 Posts: 4,877 Member
    There are some drugs and medical conditions that can cause weight gain, but biotin is not one of them. It is not a hormone and is water soluble so excess is excreted. There is no physiological mechanism for weight gain or water retention with biotin.
  • LynnStallworth
    LynnStallworth Posts: 1 Member
    edited November 2023
    Yes Biotin is definitely a weght gainer for me. I'm naturally a small 55 year old woman. A size 6 in juniors. After starting 10,000 Biotin every day for a year, i have blown up to a size 14 in women. I'm not taking any type medication. I tried to diet and exercise to get the weight off without success. I did a full check up with my primary Doctor. Everything came back fine. I stopped taking Biotin 3 weeks ago and I've lost 8 pounds.
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 9,993 Member
    LynnStallworth wrote: »
    Yes Biotin is definitely a weght gainer for me. I'm naturally a small 55 year old woman. A size 6 in juniors. After starting 10,000 Biotin every day for a year, i have blown up to a size 14 in women. I'm not taking any type medication. I tried to diet and exercise to get the weight off without success. I did a full check up with my primary Doctor. Everything came back fine. I stopped taking Biotin 3 weeks ago and I've lost 8 pounds.

    This is a very old thread. But that aside: Did you eat substantially less every day? Like 1300 calories less than your maintenance calories per day? If not then it was mostly water. There's no scientific evidence that biotin causes weight gain or more hunger in any way. It's just a watersolluble b-vitamin. The more likely explanation is less movement as you got older and eating too much. Not sure how much weight you gained within a year and what your starting weight at the beginning of that wear was, but this just is the most likely explanation.

    Stick around, learn, slowly lose the weight again.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    LynnStallworth wrote: »
    Yes Biotin is definitely a weght gainer for me. I'm naturally a small 55 year old woman. A size 6 in juniors. After starting 10,000 Biotin every day for a year, i have blown up to a size 14 in women. I'm not taking any type medication. I tried to diet and exercise to get the weight off without success. I did a full check up with my primary Doctor. Everything came back fine. I stopped taking Biotin 3 weeks ago and I've lost 8 pounds.

    Here's a recent thread by a woman about your age who was struggling to lose weight and then started using a food scale.

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10902620/post-menopause-and-weight-gain-help
    jaxluvthebeach wrote: »
    Thank you I really appreciate your post and look forward to reading your footnotes! LOL the last two days I actually measured my food and that was a real eye opener so it really could be diet related! Thanks again!
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    LynnStallworth wrote: »
    Yes Biotin is definitely a weght gainer for me. I'm naturally a small 55 year old woman. A size 6 in juniors. After starting 10,000 Biotin every day for a year, i have blown up to a size 14 in women. I'm not taking any type medication. I tried to diet and exercise to get the weight off without success. I did a full check up with my primary Doctor. Everything came back fine. I stopped taking Biotin 3 weeks ago and I've lost 8 pounds.

    Super old thread, but Biotin is just vitamin B7...it doesn't cause weight gain. It's found in all kinds of foods like eggs, bananas, milk, etc.

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